Application of Transmitted Kikuchi Diffraction in Studying Nano-oxide and Ultrafine Metallic Grains

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 10991-11002

  Abbasi, Majid ^a   Kim, Dong Ik ^a   Guim, Hwan Uk ^b   Hosseini, Morteza ^c   Danesh Manesh, Habib ^c   Abbasi, Mehrdad ^d  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

accumulative roll bonding; nanograins; orientation imaging in TEM; oxidation; transmitted EBSD; transmitted Kikuchi diffraction; ultrafine grains

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRONS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OXIDATION; ROLL BONDING;

ACCUMULATIVE ROLL BONDING; NANO GRAINS; ORIENTATION IMAGING; TRANSMITTED EBSD; ULTRA FINE GRAIN;

METALLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84948456893     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04296     Document Type: Article

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